Debate Between Federalists And Anti Federalists In The Constitutional Convention

After the constitutional convention the fight for the constitution had just begun according to article 7 conventions in nine states had to ratify the constitution before it would become effective some states were highly in favor of the new constitution and within three months three states delaware with a vote of 30 0 pennsylvania 46 23 and new jersey 38 0 had ratified it.

Debate between federalists and anti federalists in the constitutional convention. Should the members of the government be elected by direct vote of the people does slavery have any place in a. But agreeing on how to fix it wouldn t be so easy. The thought was that this concentrated power would allow. Everyone agreed that the articles of confederation had failed.

In early august 1787 the constitutional convention s committee of detail had just presented its preliminary draft of the constitution to the rest of the delegates and the federalists and the anti federalists were beginning to parse some of the biggest foundational debates over what american government should look like. The anti federalists saw in the constitution threats to rights and liberties so recently won from england. The american revolution was a costly war and left the colonies in an economic depression the debt and remaining tensions perhaps best summarized by a conflict in massachusetts known as shays rebellion led some founding political members in the u s. Furthermore they feared that these two factors would ultimately lead their.